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Challenger 650 · Hot Start · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
A business-jet simulation that begins before the cockpit
Hot Start's Challenger includes an FBO environment with fuel orders, de-icing and passenger coordination, alongside a quicker simulator mode. Its Pro Line 21 Advanced avionics are modelled as separate computers exchanging information over simulated data buses. The developer also provides system-study windows, allowing a simmer to inspect the electrical and physical models behind the cockpit indications.
Hot Start Challenger 650 · Product description; Experience, Architecture and Avionics; checked 2026-09-12
Bombardier Challenger 650
The Challenger began with a Bill Lear concept taken forward by Canadair in the 1970s. Its broad cabin and supercritical wing were central parts of the design. Later ownership and development under Bombardier produced a long sequence of engine, avionics and cabin updates.
The Challenger 650 belongs to a much later generation than the original 600. Hot Start's simulator product represents that specific aircraft and its systems environment. A family photograph of a 604 is not presented as an exact picture of the 650's equipment.
Aircraft / family
The reliability of our ambulance jets is decisive for us
Urs Nagel interviewed by Ariane Lendenmann · 1414 issue 90, May 2018 · PDF pp.16–17
Precision landing in sunny Ticino
Harald Schreiber · 1414 issue 91, November 2018 · PDF pp.24–27
Because We Have Always Done It This Way
James Albright · updated 15 June 2020 · Challenger 604 section
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The forward view uses synthetic vision
FLVS uses synthetic vision. Select FLV on the MFD with the gear extended; it is unavailable otherwise.
Manual 1.0 · pages 39–40
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Fuel quantities also need cockpit entry
Cold starts need initial and Bingo fuel in thousands of pounds on OVR or ENS; runway starts prepopulate them.
Manual page 31
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Tank loading and total fuel differ
The tablet permits individual tank loading; entering only a total distributes fuel evenly.
Manual page 95
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Some flight-control assignments are custom
The manual requires custom pitch/yaw trim assignments, with no stock keys for Q-feel, dampers or roll deflection.
Developer-documented scope · page 95
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Several test and environmental systems are omitted
FES, oxygen, failures and cabin altitude are not simulated; a representative altitude may appear.
Manual pages 25 and 95
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Landing guidance was still being developed
Version 1.0’s pseudo-ILS remained unfinished. The green FLV angle-of-attack cue is not a glideslope indicator.
Manual pages 40 and 95
Boom XB-1 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Pitch feel and roll response are different mechanisms
The XB-1 guide explicitly states that the aircraft has neither an autopilot nor fly-by-wire. It distinguishes pitch Q-feel scheduling from a roll-ratio changer: the latter changes control-surface response without changing feel. That is a useful technical distinction in a modern-looking experimental aircraft.
MSFS2024 XB1 manual1.0 · PDF pp.6,27-28
